Room for improvement with Rutgers football secondary

6:26 PM,
Oct. 6, 2013

Written by

Ryan Dunleavy
| @rydunleavy

As much as coach Kyle Flood hoped that the Rutgers football team's secondary had gotten better during the last month, he acknowledged in the days leading up to the latest test against Southern Methodist that "ultimately your improvement is judged on game day."

The verdict returned Saturday showed that the secondary is still guilty of having a long way to go.

While it held the run-and-shoot in check for three quarters, Rutgers wound up allowing 484 passing yards - the most ever accumulated by one of its opponents - and five passing touchdowns in a 55-52 triple-overtime victory against SMU. And ...